Former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland has publicly apologized to fans he mistreated at a VIP meet-and-greet in Boston.
After performing at Brighton Music Hall in Allston with his new band, Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts, the singer was hostile and vulgar to fans who shelled out extra bucks for a photo and an autograph. Accounts on fan site Below Empty relayed some of the interactions, in which Weiland appeared to first be in good spirits, then suddenly changed gears and wanted to GTFO of there:
Before I got up there to meet them, Scott was posing for pictures, smiling, putting people in headlocks, kissing them, the whole nine yards. When I get up there Scott didn’t even look at me when I was talking to him, he put his arm around me and literally said “lets get this sh*t done with”.
I did the meet and greet as well and he said “let’s suck a d**k!” to me and that was it. Over and done in 10 seconds. He was definitely drunk and ready to get outta there.
I walk up and tell scott something along the lines of “I just wanted to tell you I have been a fan for 20 years” Scott then interrupts me and says something like “OK hurry up I don’t want to hear it.” I stand next to him and smile for my picture… mean while he was complaining the whole 5 seconds that it was taking too long.
As word of the incidents started to circulate, Weiland took to his Facebook page to offer the following apology:
I would like to make a sincere apology to the fans that were at the meet and greet in Boston. I’m embarrassed by my behavior and some of the things that I said. Fans don’t deserve that. Without our fans and supporters, we would not be able to do what we’re doing. I put my all into the show that night and honestly was just beyond exhausted… either way, I acted like a total asshole and for that I’m truly sorry. – Scott
Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts’ new album, Blaster, is out March 31, and you can read our interview with the frontman here.
In the video below, Weiland and the Wildabouts perform the STP classic “Crackerman” earlier in the evening on March 14…